"Graphic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... prompted to do so by the spontaneous fervor of your heart and readiness of your imagination, you will feel now little sympathy even with the literary style of that early composition,—you will see extravagance and bombast, where once you saw only eloquence and graphic power. And as for the graver and more important matter of the thought of the discourse, I think you will be aware of a certain undefinable shallowness and crudity. Your growing experience has borne you beyond it. Somehow you feel it does not come home to you, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 46, August, 1861 • Various
... a very graphic description of his fight with Short-legs, the late chief of Khoko. About a year ago, as he was making his way down to the coast with his ivory merchandise, on arrival at Khoko, and before his camp ...
— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke
... about the Great Fire will here be interesting. Pepys gives a graphic account of its horrors. In one place he writes—"Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river, or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats, ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... is a word, a graphic sign, will permit of that unlimited progress which the mathematical mind of man has been able to make in the ...
— Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook • Maria Montessori
... unclad, which, of course, could not be endured among even so unconventional a crowd as we were. So they were mustered aft, and, to their extravagant delight, a complete rig-out was handed to each of them, accompanied by graphic instructions how to dress themselves. Very queer they looked when dressed, but queerer still not long afterwards, when some of them, galled by the unaccustomed restraint of the trousers, were seen prowling about with shirts tied round their waists by the sleeves, and pants ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen
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